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BARBERS' STRIKE ENDS
Rochester, N. Y.—After a 15-min
ntes' strike more than 300 barbers
And employers compromised a wage
dispute.
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Drivers Friends At All Times
Except During Hoosier Race
PENCIL AND PAD
TRUST IS GIVEN
FREE HAND
Washington—Failure of the depart
ment of justice to prosecute national
and Chicago stationers was blamed
on former Attorney General Daugh
erty by Chairman Thompson, of the
federal trade commission.
Testifying before a senate commit
tee, Mr. Thompson said business men
were threatened with ruin by the com
bine when they refused to charge ex­
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INDIANAPOUS, liSD.—'The drivers who will participate in the Interna
tional 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday. May 30,
have a keeu sense of sportsmanship.
They probably will have breakfast together the morning of the race, will
Chide each other at the starting line and in the evening, haggard and worn,
wiil discuss the events of the day over the dinner table.
But from the moment the starter's *ag drops on them until the finish sig
nal is given and the winner proclaimed they will be the bitterest of enemieb,
lighting each other with tricks and daring driving as furiously as ever old
world knights duelled for the supremacy of those times.
Speedway racing is one big league branch of athletics that never has
been scorched with scandal. Never once has it been tainted with dishonesty.
This picture shows Jimmy Murphy, Harry Hartz and Cliff Durant, left
to right, three of the most daring pilots who will appear at Indianapolis
Thev are buddies now—but wait till the race and see them change.
Famous French Race Driver To
Try For Victory In Long Race
AHYOIH^
MOUKRm.,
INDIANAPOLIS, 1ND.—Antoine Mourre. an idol of French sportdom, will
the Tri-color of his native land, in the International f»0U-mile race to be
held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Friday. May 30.
An athlete of note, Mourre is a record holding track performer, is an
expert -with the foils, a super horseman, an aerial hero of the war and an
automobile manufactuer in France.
Mourre will attempt to stem the tide of American victories which have
been the vogue since 1920. Before that' time Frenchmen were exceedingly
successful in humbling the Americans on the Indianapolis track.
Milton Twice Winner of 500
Mile Race Will fry Again
TOM MY
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Tommy Milton, winner of last year's Interna
tional 500-mile race who will again compete in the classic ^which'will bo held
at the Indianapolis Motof Speedway, May :»0, talking over plans for the rac
with Harry Miller, master racing car builder, who designed and built Milton'
new mount.
Milton is the only driver who ever has won twice at Indianapolis. He
won in 1921 as well as last year.
On the hard bed on Dry I^ake, California, near Los Angeles, Milton tested
the car he will drive here. Although it is less than half as large as the car
in which he established a world's straightaway record, he drove it more than
141 miles an hour.
tortionate prices. The witness testi
fied that the national association of
stationers, consisting of manufactur
ers, jobbers and retailers, 4iad a by
law under which a committee on
prices was appointed.
This committee fixed prices on
everything used in business offices.
After the federal trade commission
secured this evidence and handed it
to the department of jultice to prose
cute, the evidence was turned back to
the commission with a memorandum
saying that there was "no case."
AMERICA^ LEADS
Mine Disasters
In
This
Country Greater Thai!
In Any Other
Washington—One-half of the deaths
a nd accidents in coal mines can be a
voided, according to W, W, Adams,
statistician, in a report to the bureau
of mines.
It is generally known, the report
states, that more mine workers in
this country are killed by accidents in
proportion to the number of men
working than in any of the leading
European countries, though fewer
men "are killed in the United States
in proportion to the quantity of coal
mined.
More supervisory employes' are
needed, particularly to prevent acci
dents due to haulage equipment and
to fall of roof and coal. This might
cause an initial increase in coal prices,
Mr. Adams says. The preventage of
unnecessary accidents would, how
ever, soon more than compensate for
the increased pay roll expanse of
supervision, so that the selling price
of coal at the tipple could be restored
to its previous level, if, indeed, it
proved necessary to increase it in tht
beginning.
(JThe report states that mining con
ditions are more favorable to a higl
average output per man in the United
States than in the European countries
The coal beds in this country ar
at comparatively shallow depths, and
the seams are much thicker than ii
Europe. The European seams ar
worked on the longwall system and as
the coal is completely extracted, it ii
necessary to use waste or rock filling
to prevent subsidence of the surface
This "dead" work lowers the average
tonnage per employe for each mine
In the United States, where mine^
are worked by the "room-and-pillar'
method, and where one-third of the
coal remains underground, a large
proportion of men are employed ai
the face in actual mining operation
thus making possible a higher averag*
tonnage per man for each man. Con
tributing also to a higher tonnage pei
man is the use of larger cars, madt
possible by the thick and level coa
beds, and also the more extensive us
of machinery in mining operations i)
this country.
HOUSEVALUES
Jumped To Get Higher Rent
Says Lawmaker
Washington,—Real estate operators
in this city have become millionaires
by unloading overvalued houses on
wage earners, said Congressman Ham
mer of North Carolina in urging the
house to extend the District of Colum
bia rent regulation law.
These buildings are plastered with
first and second mortgages, or trusts
and the high valuation makes possible
only a 2 per cent return to the in
vestor.
"In loading these apartment houses
with mortgages and then selling
them," said Congressman Hammer,
"the real estate men tell buyers the
rents are to low in comparison with
the sales vaue, and all that is neces
sary to increase the income is to in
crease the rents to the level of the
sales value and these increased rents
will then give a large return on the
investments."
Congressman Hamer said that if
the law regulating rents is permitted
to go out of existence, the rents now
inordinately high, will be increased to
the level of the sales value. This po
sition is sustained by large real estate
operators.
The difference between the "sales
valUe and the "real" value of Wash
ington real estate was shown in the
case of a new owner who# brought
large apartment and was stopped by
the rent commission from raising
rents. The bank squeezed him for
payments, and the apartment was sold
for one-half what the owner paid.
"The man who was squeezed had
bought on a sales value," said Con
gressman Hammer. "If there had
been no rent law, he could have raised
the rents to the level of the sale value
and then resold to the next buyer on
a new sale value. By this method
where would the rents be in a few
months?"
TENTH ANNIVERSARY
Of Burning Of Ludlow Ten
Colony Observed By
Unionists
Denver,—The anniversary of the so
called Ludlow massacre on April 20,
1914, was 'observed by 5,000 miners on
the spot where striking miners, women
and children were shot and burned to
death by coal company guards in the
uniform of the state militia.
Representatives of miners' locals
throughtout southern Colorado were
present and recalled events of 10
years ago when they suspended'work
against the Colorado fuel and iron
company, a Rockeftller subsidiary
The strikers maintained a tent colony
at Ludlow on land controlled by them.
Without warning the colony was fired
upon.
Those who were not killed by bul
lets perished in the flames when the
tents caught fire.
The union miners bought the 40
asre field on which the tent colony
was located and erected a handsome
monument to commemorate the deaths
of these union miners, their wives and
babies.
The state was s© completely in the
grasp of this corporation that the
state legislature created a special
judicial district to try the strikers.
The newly appointed judge was an at
torney for the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company. The strike caused such ad
verse comment orw the company's
union smashing policy, and the Rocke
fellers were subjected to such criti
cism, that the company claimed it
would establish a "ne^" labor policy.
It organized a company "union,"
which was the beginning of similar or
ganizations now maintained by cor
porations whose attitude toward labor
has been similar to that of the C.
F. & I.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS GAIN
Washington. Detroit and Cleve
land inside electrical workers report
wage increase of 12% cents an hour
President Noonan, of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers. The new
Detroit rate is $1.25, and the Cleve
nd rnte is $1.371.|'.
213 HIGH STREET
MOTHER MORTALITY
HIGH IN CAPITAL
Washington. More mothers die
from childbirth in the nation's capi
tal than in any other section of the
United States, according to Miss
Grace Abbott, chief of the United
States children's bureau.
Census figures for 1922 show that
the District of Columbia had a ma
ternal mortality rate of 7.1. This
means that for every thousand babies
bom alive in the District during that
year seven mothers died from causes
connected with childbirth.
Comparing American rates with
those of 22 foreign countries, the chil
dren's bureau found that a mother's
chance to escape death from child
birth were better in every country,
including Italy, Japan, South Africa,
Spain and Hungary, than in Wash
ington, D. C.
VETERANS DROP
LIFE INSURANCE
Washington,—Discussion in the sen
ate on the soldiers' bonus revealed
that but approximately 12 per cent of
the world war veterans have held their
SUTER BOOT SHOP'S
REMODELING SALE
NOW GOING ON
FINE NEW SLIPPERS and OXFORDS
At Tremendous Reductions
Our store room is to be remodeled in order that the Citizens Bank can
occupy part of the rear of the room
Every Pair of Shoes in the Store Reduced
JT THE HOUSE OF "S AT s A'C TO V
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213 High Street
war risk insurance issued by the gov?
ernment.
At the beginning of the war 40,000**
000. Over 4,000.000 of these policies
have lasped or been cashed in and
the $40,000,000 insurance has dropped
to less than $3,000,000.
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N6w York.—Oil companies re
porting increased earnings this quar
ter over the same period last year.
The Standard oil group lears with
Standard oil of Indiana reporting
more than $41,000,000 profit after all
charges have been paid.
WIRELESS IN MINES
Washington,—A wireless system of
communication can solve the problem
of talking with underground mine
workers, according to 3. J. Jakosky of
the bureau of mines.
In tests recently conducted in a coal
mine 400 feet deep, no difficulty was
experienced on, the surface in receiv
ing radio messages from a .transmit
ting set mounted upon a mine locomo
tive as long as the apparatus was in
the vicinitv of metallic cn/riers.
HAMILTON, OHTO